Hay-stacker



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J. H. 82; T. K. BARLEY.4

y HAY STAGKER. y v No. 302,084. Patented July 15, 1884.

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UNITED STA-TES PATENT I @einem 'JAMns H. BARLEY ANnTHoMAs ir. BARLEY, or snDALiA, MISSOURI. f

SPECIFICA TION forming pari:l of Letters -Patent No. 302,084, dated July 15,'1884.

v Application filed May 12, 18H4, (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES H. BARLEY and THOMAS K. BARLEY, citizens ofthe United States of America, residing at Sedalia, in the county of Pettis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Stackers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertainsr to improvements in hay-stackers, having for its object to effect the ready elevation and stacking of the hay, and to prevent the saine during windy weather from being blown off the fork, and to permit the ready topping off of the stack;77 and the invention consists of the hereinafter described and claimed parts.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a. view in side elevation of our invention with the fork in its lowered position receiving the hay. an elevated position to permit the stacking of the hay. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the fork.

In the organization of our invention we erect a pole or staff, A, securing it upon a base, a,

- which may be secured in place by stakes connected together by a chain or otherwise, one driven into a clip, a, connected to the base, and the other driven in the ground. To this pole is hinged an upright, B,whioh serves, as presently seen, as a rail, and has a cross-piece, a, fastened to its upper end, thefunetion of which will also appear furtherr on.

C is the fork, which consists .o'f a series of tines fixed to a head, to the center of which is fastened a two-part handle, b, having anti-,frictional rolls d d-one arranged between the outer ends of the bars of which the handle is composed and the other arranged a short distance inwardly therefrom. f

Between the inner ends of the parts of the handle Zr is hinged orlpivoted one end of the two-part brace e, the parts or bars of the latter being also provided with anti-frictional rolls f f, similarly and coincidently disposed as the rolls d d of the handle b; The handle and brace are supported inposition upon the pole A, their rolls resting against the front'and'rear sides of the pole, and the handle being so disposed thereon as to allow the fork to fhave such a slant to the surface of the ground that the hay Fig. 2 is a similar view with the fork in can be readily raked thereon, while the bracel will assume such positionto the handle, being Y prevented from having too great a divergence from the latter by the staying-chain g, that the fork will be properly held in position and the handle be the pole. f

D D are a number of holding-ngers,secured at their inner ends to a cross-bar, D, and connected together by a cross-bar, D, fastened a short distance from the bar'D thereto, said bar D being hinged to a cross-bar at the inner ends of the tines of the fork C, and hav- Y ing a lever, D3, operated by a cord, h, connected to said lever, and of such length as to prevented from binding uponv be within convenient reach -whenthefork is at its highest point of elevation.

ofthe ngers D are pointed or curved down? ward, and extend adj acently to the outer ends of the fork-tines, to effect the holding uponthe fork of its load of hay while being elevated as against slipping or being in windyl weather blown therefrom. Thefork is raised upon or along the pole A by a rope or chain, F, connected to the fork head or handle C thereof,

and passed up over a pulley, z', in one end of thenpper cross-piece, ai, of the pole A, being next passed over a second pulley, j, i at the op-f posite end of said cross-piece, after which it is passed down to and under a third pulley, k, in proximity to the base of the pole. r Io the free end of this rope a horse is designed to be connected for raisingthe loaded fork. When the fork,with its load, has been raised'to the desired elevation, the same is swung around with thehinged upright at right angles to its former position, and the fingers D are elevated,when the stack-builder or attendant can readily remove the hay from the fork to therising stack. qWhen the stack has risen to the height to need topping off,77 the fork, with its` load, is elevated to such an extent as to allow of its be- The outer ends.

ingrheld horizontally, the fingers being elevated to permit the builder "7 to remove the contents of thefork and then descend from the' stack upon the fork. If desired, the fork, or rather its head, may be hinged to the handle, to permit the tilting of the fork in discharging the same.

As the disposition of some of the parts of our above-described invention may be readily IOO varied, it will therefore be understood that We do not restrict the same in that particular.

Having thus fully ldescribed oui` invention, whatwe claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is@

l. In a hay-staeker, the pole having the hinged upright or rail, With the fork capable of movement thereon, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. -In a hay-stacker, the fork having the fixed handle and the fingers hinged to a cross-bar of the fork-tines, said fingers having their outer ends pointed or curved downwardly adj aeently to the outer ends of the fork-tines, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

8. In a hay-stacker7 the pole having the hinged rail 0r upright, with the handle and the brace of the fork sliding upon saidhinged rail, and operating cords, ropes, or chains couneoted to the fork head or handle and a lever ofthe lingers, and passing over the pulleys, substantially as and. for the purpose set forth.

4. The Combination of the pole or upright having the hinged rail o1' bar, and the top Cross-piece provided with pulleys at its ends, 

